Wuhan East Lake greenway is a city level public greenway located in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, whose first phase is divided into four sections, namely the middle section of the lake, the mountain section of the lake, the section of Moshan and the section of countryside. Moshan section, with Moshan Park as the core, is located in the center of the East Lake, with a total land area of about 310 hectares. It is one of the best scenic spots in the East Lake whose supporting construction is relatively mature.
The design takes the idea of "making the city quiet" as the core planning concept, takes the mountain, water, capital and city as the carriers, and highlights the "open and wild" characteristics of Moshan as the most natural ecological area of East Lake, so that people can walk along the lakeside, enjoy the Lake, walk into the forest, climb to the top of the mountain, experience the multi-level spatial transformation, from the lakeside to the forest, and meet in the interwoven space and time of thousands of years to experience the dialogue between history and today.
Reshaping Historical Memory: Diversified Greenway Experience
In the planning, the designer fully connects the Moshan section of East Lake greenway with the urban master plan, regional comprehensive transportation planning, municipal special planning and other relevant planning, implements the overall requirements of the East Lake Greenway Construction, highlights the "open and wild" landscape characteristics of the East Lake greenway, and fully reflects the natural ecology, convenience and comfort of the greenway by connecting the surrounding functions of the region.
The original "waterfront living room", "Jingchu Xiongfeng" and "Yanbo Yunshan" in Moshan park are antiquated with single function, which do not meet the actual needs of greenway. When carrying out the detailed planning and design, the designers focus on the cultural heritage of Moshan Park, and combine the historical memory of the park with the new construction needs.
The designer has carried on the detailed design to the building (structure), the landscape sketch, the environmental sanitation lighting, the sign facility, the rest facility, the paving material and so on, which fully manifested the characteristic style and created the landscape space which manifests the ecological characteristic. In the meanwhile, the designers take the ecological protection of the water environment and natural vegetation into consideration, create an unique exquisite revetment landscape of East Lake on the basis of not destroying the water environment, ecology and the overall landscape, which also increases the facilities and experience of viewing the lake and walking around the lake.
Combined with the original landscape resources and roads of Moshan, this design tries its best to preserve people's historical memory, and focuses on shaping high-level, high-quality and high-grade landscape space, create diversified greenway experience, and provide more comfortable urban public space for citizens, aiming to transform the single park into a multi-functional civic activity center.
The Beauty of "Open and Wild": Protecting the Ecological Foundation of Moshan Park
In the process of planning and design, in order to fully show the "open and wild" landscape characteristics of the East Lake greenway, the designer focused on two aspects of functional requirements: one is the open scenic area portal, which will make Moshan section a natural ecological landscape miniature of the great beauty East Lake; the second is to design the post station in detail, fully considering the traffic connection, passenger flow distribution, tourists' rest, supporting services, etc.
According to the general requirements of Greenway use, the designer makes detailed planning for supporting facilities of all levels of post stations to meet the different needs of citizens. At the same time, building a feeder bus hub center which separates people and vehicles, combining greenway post station with tourist center, and increasing the space for commercial and bike sharing services.
Through the form of erecting wooden trestle, the pedestrian and cyclist can be separated to provide the green road tour experience into the forest; the fluorescent footpath is designed to increase the interactive experience effect of garden tour at night, while the existing lawn square is redesigned to facilitate the public to view the lake view and for daily use. For the mountain road which leads you to the top, appropriate replanting and combing are carried out according to the existing plants, so as to increase the seasonal flowers to enrich the experience of climbing.
At the same time, the designer has also replanned the tourism line of Chu city to improve the utilization efficiency of the existing commercial facilities, and introduce the solar energy ecological intelligent system to form an energy-saving, environmental protection and ecological landscape service facility system.
Walking between the greenways, every plant, tree, flower and brick is the result of landscape design. It seems to have no trace, but the design is everywhere. Enjoying flowers in spring, bathing in the cool wind in summer, watching fallen leaves in autumn, bathing in the warm sun in winter - each season has its own beauty.
